A dissertation on the means of preserving health, in Charleston, and the adjacent low country : read before the Medical Society of South-Carolina, on the 29th of May, 1790 / by David Ramsay, M.D. ; member of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh.

  • Ramsay, David, 1749-1815.
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MDCCXC [1790]
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Credit: A dissertation on the means of preserving health, in Charleston, and the adjacent low country : read before the Medical Society of South-Carolina, on the 29th of May, 1790 / by David Ramsay, M.D. ; member of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    has an advantage ever it by being inhaled and applied to the vitals. In anoiher view of this fubjret, it may be added, that a man whonfes early will comparatively add feven years of the belt, time for ftudy and bufine fs to a life of fixty-five. Tho* early riling is very vvholfome, yet going abroad in the morning in the country, while the grafs is covered with dew, frequently produces fevers. To obtain the good, unmixed with the evil, the mod fh mid be made of the cool morning air, but without wetting our feet with damp grafs, or other- wife expofing ou felves to an undue ablorption of that moifture which abounds for f ,me time after the riling of the iun. As a further precaution againftthe chills of the morning, it would be pru- dent never to go abroad with an empty ftomach. A glafsof cold water, or flice of bread, or a draught of fume bitter r:a, taken immediately after r!fing3 would be beneficial. The above cautions of avoiding the morning dew may fafely be diipenfed with in many cafes. A man who walhes his feet in cold water every day will hardly ever fuffer from walking abroad in the morning. Nor will he who changes his fhoes, and wipes his feet foon after they are wet from dewy grafs. It may farther be added, that if chil- dren were educated as they cught to be, when grown up they would have little to fear from wet feet or morning dews. Immoderate drinking mould be avoided in thi« climate. To add the flimulus of large quantities of fpirituous liquors to the heat occasioned by a warm atmoipherea is to add fuel to fire. Every evil